Then again, maybe there’s a method to this apparent madness: National Geographic dreamed up the poll… paid for it… publicized it… reaped the rewards of that publicity… and then criticized it on web pages featuring ads for the new Toyota Prius — and it all came out of one shop.

Scienceblogs is garbage- completely biased, industry fed garbage (see Pepsigate, Bhopal one writers piece covering it was yanked due to concerns it would anger potential advertisers), medical coverage on autism and CCSVI. Recently a doctor, trying to be civil on a blog about autism and environmental factors was told to ‘take a flying fvck at a rolling donut… My I don’t give a shjt tank is empty and I don’t care about your…’it really inspires me about the world! Not.

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Hi. I'm Alan Mairson. I'm a freelance journalist based in Bethesda, Maryland; a former staff writer & editor for National Geographic magazine; and a member & lifelong fan of the National Geographic Society. For details about this project, please check out our inaugural post. For more about my advisers & me, see this. To feel the tight financial grip that Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation exerts on the National Geographic Society, peek at these tax returns. And if you'd like to share ideas, questions, or suggestions — or if you just want to heckle :-) — please contact me here. Thanks for stopping by.